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Wystan Hugh Auden has 321 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon…
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,…
— Charlie Parker
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I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni,…
— Branford Marsalis
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My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
— Giorgio Moroder
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Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black…
— Jill Scott
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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni…
— Jill Scott
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So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous…
— John Green
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